-----Original Message----- From: kriston@MOUSE-WORKS.COM [mailto:kriston@MOUSE-WORKS.COM] Sent: Monday, July 26, 2004 3:29 AM To: SPAM-L@PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM Subject: Re: SPAM: Phishing attempt?
On 26 Jul 2004 at 1:07, David Smith dbsmith@ATBBS.DYNDNS.ORG wrote:
01o.com belongs to Britemoon, Inc. A quick websearch brings up mentions of Britemoon as a spammer, which is why I'm wondering if Qwest might not have hired them for this. Is it common for a known spammer to go into the phishing business?
According to here, http://www.britemoon.com/about/index3.html, Qwest is one of their clients. Britemoon probably does their email marketing. I came across the same thing with Consumer Reports when I confirmed that they were using a DoubleClick subsidiary to do their "email marketing", aka spamming.
NANAS has lots of hits for this guy. Joe Lucas. He send UBE/UCE on behalf of large businesses like Days Inn, Fedex, Qwest, ect.......
But it is spam, as they buy lists to send to and there is no opt-in. Not even close to double opt-in :)
--Chris
On Monday, July 26, 2004, 6:05:43 AM, Chris Santerre wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: kriston
On 26 Jul 2004 at 1:07, David Smith dbsmith@ATBBS.DYNDNS.ORG wrote:
01o.com belongs to Britemoon, Inc. A quick websearch brings up mentions of Britemoon as a spammer, which is why I'm wondering if Qwest might not have hired them for this. Is it common for a known spammer to go into the phishing business?
According to here, http://www.britemoon.com/about/index3.html, Qwest is one of their clients. Britemoon probably does their email marketing. I came across the same thing with Consumer Reports when I confirmed that they were using a DoubleClick subsidiary to do their "email marketing", aka spamming.
NANAS has lots of hits for this guy. Joe Lucas. He send UBE/UCE on behalf of large businesses like Days Inn, Fedex, Qwest, ect.......
But it is spam, as they buy lists to send to and there is no opt-in. Not even close to double opt-in :)
But the key question is: do they have any legitimate uses?
If they're sending mail for Days Inn, Fedex, Qwest, etc., then it sounds like they do.
On the other hand we can whitelist their customers and possibly allow the sending company to be listed. But unless they are adding their own URL to the mailings, then it's somewhat irrelevant. Their mail servers can also get caught by conventional RBLs based on message headers.
Jeff C.
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